International Herald Tribune: Finding political news online, the young pass it on
Thursday, 27 March 2008, 15:26 via del.icio.us/martinstabe
"[Y]ounger voters tend to be not just consumers of news and current events but conduits as well — sending out e-mailed links and videos to friends and their social networks. And in turn, they rely on friends and online connections for news to come to them. In essence, they are replacing the professional filter — reading The Washington Post, clicking on CNN.com — with a social one. ... Jane Buckingham, the founder of the Intelligence Group, a market research company ... recalled conducting a focus group where one of her subjects, a college student, said, "If the news is that important, it will find me."
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1. Jonas | 28 March 2008 at 0032
They need to be dislodged from the press in the cellar
2. Jayleen G | 23 March 2009 at 0917
Thanks for the post! I heard an issue about International Herald Tribune that it runs some fashion ads that seem irresponsible in a recession. For example, Luis Vuitton handbags (small luggage that costs about $1,000) and Rolex and Patek Phillipe watches cost way more than you'll be able to afford with online payday loans. (Casio works just as well, by the way.) It almost seems unfair to allow the existence of fashion magazine when you think about it.
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